I got a milk goat today!

[Livinzoo]

One of my coworkers told me he had a goat for me. He said it was a saanen. I dropped her off today. She has horns and is about a year old. She has never been bred. I decided to call her Latte.

Last week I got a 75% Kiko 25% boer buckling. He is 2 months old. He is a little cutie. He was given the name Thor by family.

These two are in a temp pen. They will eventually join my other two girls. A 50/50 boer/kiko and a 50/50 spanish/kiko. They are both probably bred to a 7/8 kiko buck. The spanish/kiko is starting to develop an udder.

When I get some time I will have to get some pics of all of them. I do have a question. At what point will my buckling start breeding? I know they can breed at 2 months, but at what point do they start hitting maturity?

 

[hollyk]

From what I have read they will be going strong a 5-6 months old. Our boer buckling was getting the job done @ 3 months. His first babies are due February 24th! We have 3 bucklings that will be show wethers in about 6 weeks, they are 2 months old and are trying to mount everything. Of course, the older does are not impressed but this does not discourage the little fellows!

 

[AussieSharon]

Congratulations on your new goat. Can't wait to see pics.

My pygmy fainting was just bred to a pygmy who is about 5 months old. It looked like he had no trouble at all getting the job done. Guess we'll know this Summer!

 

[helmstead]

The youngest my Juniors have sucessfully covered a doe is 5 months.

Congrats on your new goats! Pics?

 

[FarmGirl01]

Conjrats. We would love to see the pics.